Re: Help with partially fried QMX
From your photos, your soldering looks fine.
The fried transistor could be causing that continuity now.? Since you have ordered a new one, you could just remove the current one and see if the short
By
Stan Dye
·
#141952
·
|
Power Output
Hi all
I have just built and finished my first QMX+ and it worked first time well impressed. Just one question on the power output which I am measuring into a dummy load.
On 160m I am getting 7.2w,
By
paul G0HEU
·
#141951
·
|
Re: QSX project retirement
Hi
With all that gain, you can use it for HackRF kind of miliWatt SDR transceivers.
Even with U4B baloon Tracker
73 DE muhsin TA1MHS
>
>
>
By
Muhsin TA1MHS
·
#141950
·
|
Re: QMX work with PA
Hi Sergey
My QMX works great with 1_01_003 firmware. I've calibrated it and SSB
Great!
Few problems:
In version 1_00_003 the power meter reads peaks. Not averages. Then there
is also a hold time. It
By
Hans Summers
·
#141949
·
|
Re: Help with partially fried QMX
Stan,
Thank you very much for your detailed reply. After trying some of your triage steps, I am observing that the GND, +12V, and VCC all exhibit continuity with each other on the compromised SMP
By
Austin K4HYD
·
#141948
·
|
Re: QMX+ high pitch noise on power. Now dead.
I have rev 2. When I plug in the power it still shows as 12 on the board.
It only draws power when I press the power button.
[email protected]> wrote:
By
Nico Smith
·
#141947
·
|
Re: QMX+ high pitch noise on power. Now dead.
For that TVS diode (right alongside the power connector), the forward 0.6V drop is not the critical thing - it is the reverse breakdown, and I'm not sure if the 'diode test' function of a multimeter
By
Stan Dye
·
#141946
·
|
Re: Help with partially fried QMX
The MOSFET would blow from over-current, not over-voltage.? And high current will happen if +5V is somewhere shorted to ground, or Q108 is turned on all the time, which causes zener D108, which is
By
Stan Dye
·
#141945
·
|
Re: Help with partially fried QMX
Austin,
If your screen lighted up and Q108 blew without you pressing the power-on button, it means you have one or more shorts going on.? That display tab can cause shorts in the power supply, but
By
Stan Dye
·
#141944
·
|
Re: QMX+ high pitch noise on power. Now dead.
I just checked the diode and it seems to be fine with a 0.6v drop.
[email protected]> wrote:
By
Nico Smith
·
#141943
·
|
Re: #qmx #SSB Firmware beta 1_01_003 release
#qmx
#ssb
...the Images:
https://github.com/dl4pj/qmxfiltersim/blob/main/images/buggyplot.png
https://github.com/dl4pj/qmxfiltersim/blob/main/images/bypass20m.png
By
Peter Jacobi
·
#141942
·
|
Re: #qmx #SSB Firmware beta 1_01_003 release
#qmx
#ssb
Hello,
I am doing some experiments with the qmx filter sections. E.g. I bridged the BPF and LPF section by a cap.
I wanted to test, how flat the sweeps are without any filter.
The results are good
By
Peter Jacobi
·
#141941
·
|
Re: #qmx #SSB Firmware beta 1_01_003 release
#qmx
#ssb
Very nice quality, Chris.? Thanks for posting!
By
Stan Dye
·
#141940
·
|
Re: Board revision
If you just ordered it, it's a Version? 3.? ?Hans said at the start that he would not ship 3 until the stock of older versions is empty.? I ordered? weeks ago and it was a 3.
Printing in color
By
Bill Jobes
·
#141939
·
|
Article on RF Amplifier Error Correction. Applicable to QMX?
#amplifier
#qmx
#QMXplus
#ssb
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/introduction-to-the-feed-forward-linearization-of-rf-power-amplifiers/?user_mcid=3b7c12b4be
By
Ray D Congdon
·
#141938
·
|
Re: #qmx #SSB Firmware beta 1_01_003 release
#qmx
#ssb
https://youtu.be/fImxAz-MeQ4
By
Chris
·
#141937
·
|
Help with partially fried QMX
Hello, I recently just fished putting my QMX Rev 4 kit together with the windings necessary for 12v input. As I was going along I verified I all continuity checks as instructed and verified no pads
By
Austin K4HYD
·
#141936
·
|
Re: #qmx #SSB Firmware beta 1_01_003 release
#qmx
#ssb
I tested the quality of the SSB transmission today. A standard electret microphone with a mic gain of 55 and a compressor of 3-5 and at the end. The receiver was an FT-817.
73
By
Chris
·
#141935
·
|
Re: QSX project retirement
Hi Norm
>
I know about the wattage differences compared with S-meter readings, etc.,
The probability is certainly non-zero. But I don't have any concrete plans
for a 10W QMX+ at the moment.
Bear in
By
Hans Summers
·
#141934
·
|
#QMX #SSB #calibration A note about spurious PA power after IMD optimization on a band is over
#qmx
#ssb
#calibration
I don't know if any of you has noticed anything similar: while performing the SSB calibration on a band-by-band basis (using the "O" option) I noticed that at the end of the USB/LSB IMD Optimization
By
ENZO M0KTZ
·
#141933
·
|